The curfew will cover all of Baghdad province, Salahuddin province, which includes Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit, and the Sunni insurgent hotbeds of Diyala and Anbar provinces.
Leave for all military personnel has been cancelled indefinitely and vacationing soldiers recalled to active duty. New checkpoints sprang up everywhere, including within the fortified Green Zone that houses Iraqi government offices and the US and British embassies.
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